Here's what Nazi Musk, Nazi Trump and the rest of this sick Nazi white supremacist science hating sociopathic eugenicist concentration camp loving earth poisoning sadistic medical experimenting administration are desperate to keep you from reading.
PUBLIC PROTEST WORKS (the bigger the better)
Our job is to reach and engage the masses however we can and to throw sand in the gears at every opportunity.
Same as them, but truth telling.
Wikipedia is a problem for Musk/Trump. Not, as Musk says, because it's "woke." Because it's one of our last reliable tethers to a consensus reality. Therefore, an antidote to disinformation.
It's not making anyone money. It's not enshittified. Of course it's not perfectâit's an endeavor of imperfect cooperating humans. But it needs protection and support.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-wikipedia-fund-raising-editing-political-woke-2005742
đ Wikipedia is 24 years old today!
Y a donc un journaliste du Point qui tranquillou dĂ©cide dâouter un contributeur #Wikipedia dans la presse et Ă son employeur, parce quâil a fait des modifications qui lui plaisent pas https://w.wiki/D6eR
On this day in 2000, Nupedia, a multi-language online encyclopedia, and predecessor of Wikipedia, was launched.
"Unlike Wikipedia, Nupedia was not a wiki; it was instead characterized by an extensive peer-review process, designed to make its articles of a quality comparable to that of professional encyclopedias."
Newsletter: The real threat isn't AI using open knowledge â it's AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free. The future of free and open access isn't saying âwait, not like thatâ â itâs saying "yes, like that, but under fair termsâ.
https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/
65% of Wikimedia's most expensive traffic comes from bots.
"Since January 2024, we have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%. This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models."
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/
What a nice surprise to discover â featured on the #wikipedia article for the #fediverse! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
#FediverseSymbol
"Wikipedia should not be taken for granted. This is an existential threat."
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales
Archived link: https://archive.is/rXgsz
Something I wish journalists understood better: anyone can nominate an article for deletion on Wikipedia, which kicks off a week-long discussion â even if the article is perfectly acceptable and will ultimately be kept. This does not mean "Wikipedia is trying to delete X!!"
Want to be able to start micro-editing on Wikipedia in a few minutes â and know why you could be very glad you did? Then my new post @PLOS is just what you need!
Summarising for the purpose of pinning:
If there is a #Wikipedia article about you (in any language) which has an unflattering photo of you, or if it doesn't have a photo of you at all, you can fix this! The quickest solution is to take a good photo of yourself â copyright of photos belongs to the photographer, so a selfie simplifies the process. You can also use a photo that someone else has taken if it has an appropriate licence.
Photos and media files are uploaded to #WikimediaCommons so they can be used in any Wikipedia or other #Wikimedia project. All text and media content on Wikimedia projects must have a public domain or free content licence. We prefer CC-BY-SA and CC0. These licences are irrevocable and cannot restrict where or how they are used.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing#Acceptable_licenses
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Considerations_for_licensors_and_licensees#Considerations_for_licensors
If you don't have a Wikipedia/Wikimedia account, you can post a photo here on the fediverse and a Wikipedian can upload it for you. Post the photo along with the licence declaration in the same post (Mastodon, GoToSocial, etc) or in the caption (Pixelfed).
CC-BY-SA declaration:
I agree to publish this image under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.
CC0 declaration:
I agree to publish this image under the Creative Commons Zero Public Domain Dedication 1.0 licence.
Tag this post with #Wikipedia and #WikimediaCommons so an editor is likely to see it.
More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PICYOU
Edit: posted to my blog at https://www.claudinec.net/posts/2025-12-23-wikimedia-photos/
#SFBayArea folks: On October 7 I'll be speaking on a panel of #Wikipedia editors at the #SanFrancisco Public Library, North Beach.
https://sfpl.org/events/2025/10/07/panel-life-wikipedia-editor
New year, time for a new #introduction.
I'm a queer Black #trans (agender/transmasculine) #vegan #pacifist, freelance writer/blogger, long-time #Wikipedia editor, and #SanFrancisco resident.
If you like my writing, please follow me at https://funcrunch.org/blog, where I share my stories about gender, social justice, veganism, and other topics.
I'm also on #Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/funcrunch
#Wikipedia accounts to follow:
âĄïž @wikipedia - Official account for Wikipedia
âĄïž @mediawiki - Free open software that powers Wikipedia
âĄïž @kiwix - Free open app to browse & search Wikipedia offline
âĄïž @WikiSignpost - Independent news site covering Wikipedia & Wikimedia
âĄïž @wikiresearch - Latest academic research about Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia
âĄïž @wmlgbt - Improving LGBTQIA+ history articles on Wikipedia
âĄïž @WikimediaIE - Irish Wikipedia user group
1/2
đš Save the date: 17.10.25 - 19 Uhr
Ich freu mich sehr, den nĂ€chsten netzpolitischen Abend in #Innsbruck @itsyndikat moderieren zu dĂŒrfen.
Thema ist "Die Rolle Freien Wissens in den Krisen unserer Zeit" âš
Wir haben 2 spannende VortrÀge:
I. Nachhaltigkeit nachhaltig sichtbar machen: #Wikipedia in der Klimakommunikation @uniinnsbruck @melaniebartos & Tobias Kleinlercher
II. Freies Wissen in der Demokratiekrise @nini @WikimediaAT
đ mehr Infos: https://netzpolitischerabend.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/72-netzpolitischer-abend-at-am-17-10-2025-die-rolle-freien-wissens-in-den-krisen-unserer-zeit/
![Samedi 15 fĂ©vrier, aprĂšs avoir contribuĂ© Ă l'article de WikipĂ©dia consacrĂ© au journal Le Point, FredD, contributeur bĂ©nĂ©vole de WikipĂ©dia depuis 18 ans, auteur de plus de 30 000 modifications, a eu la trĂšs dĂ©sagrĂ©able surprise de recevoir un courriel envoyĂ© depuis l'adresse professionnelle d'Erwan Seznec, journaliste au Point, qui comportait notamment les propos suivants : « Nous allons faire un article sur vous, sur notre site, en donnant votre identitĂ©, votre fonction, en sollicitant une rĂ©action officielle de [l'employeur supposĂ© de FredD]. » Le mĂȘme journaliste a Ă©galement obtenu le numĂ©ro de tĂ©lĂ©phone personnel de FredD et l'a contactĂ© par ce biais.](/proxy/post_attachment/71664/41b574b368.jpeg "Samedi 15 fĂ©vrier, aprĂšs avoir contribuĂ© Ă l'article de WikipĂ©dia consacrĂ© au journal Le Point, FredD, contributeur bĂ©nĂ©vole de WikipĂ©dia depuis 18 ans, auteur de plus de 30 000 modifications, a eu la trĂšs dĂ©sagrĂ©able surprise de recevoir un courriel envoyĂ© depuis l'adresse professionnelle d'Erwan Seznec, journaliste au Point, qui comportait notamment les propos suivants : « Nous allons faire un article sur vous, sur notre site, en donnant votre identitĂ©, votre fonction, en sollicitant une rĂ©action officielle de [l'employeur supposĂ© de FredD]. » Le mĂȘme journaliste a Ă©galement obtenu le numĂ©ro de tĂ©lĂ©phone personnel de FredD et l'a contactĂ© par ce biais.")
